Month: March 2020

A sophisticated group of hackers targeted the World Health Organization (WHO) and its partners attempting to steal login credentials to get access to its network by impersonating WHO’s internal email system. Several WHO staffers received […]

American HomePatient’s proposal to settle for $1 million a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of the 2017 data breach victims has gotten initial approval. The data breach which led to the filing of the lawsuit […]

The 2019 Novel Coronavirus was referred to by researchers as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 or SARS-CoV-2. It is the virus behind the Coronavirus Disease 2019 or COVID-19. In November, researchers first discovered the […]

After the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights announcement that HIPAA compliance enforcement has been relaxed in relation to the good faith provision of telehealth services all through the COVID-19 national public health emergency, OCR released […]

There were a number of reported incidents of cyberattacks on healthcare companies that are presently working 24 / 7 to make sure patients with COVID-19 get the healthcare they need to have. These attacks result […]

In trying to stop the passing on of the 2019 novel coronavirus, patients believed of having exposure to the virus and people having signs of COVID-19 were advised to self-isolate at home. It is vital […]

A law company is filing a lawsuit against Medical Records Online (MRO), a healthcare release-of-information solution provider, for charging too much on law companies and insurance companies when furnishing electronic copies of patients’ health records. […]

For sure HIPAA covered entities, which include healthcare companies, healthcare clearinghouses, health plans, and business associates of covered entities, have plenty of queries about HIPAA compliance and the COVID-19 coronavirus cases. There may well be […]

Cybercriminals are targeting the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in an attempt to overload its website with hundreds of thousands of hits. As per the statement of HHS spokesperson, Caitlin B. Oakley, […]

TigerConnect is the provider of the most popular secure healthcare communications platform in the USA. It declared its support for COVID-19 related communications during the coronavirus pandemic by allowing U.S. health systems and hospitals to […]

Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital in Santa Clarita, CA has dismissed a number of its employees because of snooping on the Saugus High School shooter’s health records. Under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) […]

HIMSS Media on behalf of Mimecast recently published a study which revealed that for the past 12 month period, 90% of healthcare organizations have encountered a minimum of one email-based threat. While 72% have suffered […]

Privacy Breach at Harris Health System Harris Health System based in Houston, TX has informed 2,298 patients about the potential exposure of some of their protected health information (PHI). On December 30, 2019, two envelopes […]

The 2020 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Conference (HIMSS 20) was cancelled because of the persistent spread of COVID-19. Over 40,000 people and 1,300 exhibitors were supposed to go to the conference that was […]

The Singapore University of Technology and Design researchers identified a group of 12 vulnerabilities referred to as SweynTooth in the Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) software development kits that came from around 7 suppliers of software-on-a-chip […]

Walgreens started notifying customers regarding the potential access of some of their protected health information (PHI) by other people because of an error in the Walgreens mobile app particularly its personal secure messaging feature. The […]

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) conducted an audit of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The results revealed that technology control flaws in the NIH electronic medical records […]

It can be a challenging task to satisfy all of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Security, Privacy, Omnibus, and Breach Notification Rules requirements. A lot of healthcare providers have established a compliance […]

Connectria has unveiled the release of a carbon-neutral ‘green cloud’ in its North America and European Union data centers. The brand-new green cloud is being offered to businesses using IBM i and VMware systems. Connectria […]